Quotes and Sayings About Composer

If you're a composer, there's never a moment you're not working.
-- Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

#Moments #Composer

Jerry Goldsmith is the #1 composer working now. He's open to new ideas and always inventing.
-- Elmer Bernstein

#Ideas #Composer #Jerry

I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.
-- Enya

#Listen To Your Heart #Composer

The greatest composer does not sit down to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.
-- Ernest Newman

#Doe #Inspired #Composer

A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.
-- Ernest Newman

#Music #Found #Composer

I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.
-- Esa-Pekka Salonen

#Composer #Very Happy #Feels

A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we've commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of them percussion concertos.
-- Evelyn Glennie

#Thinking #Pieces #Composer

I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with.
-- Fred Frith

#Thinking #Influence #Composer

Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.
-- Gavin Bryars

#Hard Times #France #Composer

I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.
-- Gavin Bryars

#Writing #Names #Composer

Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.
-- Gian Carlo Menotti

#Opera #Composer #Feels

My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.
-- Gianni Versace

#Dream #Fashion #Composer

I just have to take my chances like any other composer.
-- Gordon Getty

#Chance #Composer

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.
-- Gustav Mahler

#Used #Composer

To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole.
-- Gustav Mahler

#Judging #Composer

I think a composer is always interested in his last work.
-- Gyorgy Ligeti

#Thinking #Lasts #Composer

The three greatest composers are Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. All the others are cretins.
-- Hans von Bulow

#Three #Composer #Brahms

There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.
-- Harold Prince

#Creative #Wonderful #Composer

I'm not an architectural composer.
-- Harrison Birtwistle

#Composer

In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers.
-- Hoagy Carmichael

#Rainbow #Hollywood #Composer

Composers combine notes, that's all.
-- Igor Stravinsky

#Notes #Composer

Good composers don't borrow, they steal
-- Igor Stravinsky

#Stealing #Composer

Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.
-- James Cook

#Musician #Composer #Gifted

I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too.
-- John Corigliano

#Awards #Grew Up #Composer

I have tremendous respect for film composers.
-- John Corigliano

#Film #Composer

I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear.
-- John Corigliano

#Thinking #Students #Composer

Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.
-- John Philip Sousa

#People #Sound #Composer

I hadn’t realized that music could unlock things in you, could transport you to somewhere even the composer hadn’t predicted. It left an imprint in the air around you, as if you carried its remnants with you when you went.
-- Jojo Moyes

#Air #Remnants #Composer

I write arrangements. Im sort of a wannabe composer.
-- Joshua Bell

#Writing #Wannabes #Composer

Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.
-- Judy Holliday

#Giving #Facts #Composer